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^-5 THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIREVOL. VII., NO. 967. ' JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1915. ' , PRICE TEN CBtfeAbandonment of Dardanelles Campaign Is IndicatedFAIRBANKSMAN DIESIN BIG FIREFAIRBANKS. Dec.., 20.?When theCalifornia Block was'totally destroyodby f re yesterday afternoon. GeorgeSaloff, a Russian, was burned to deathproperty worth about $45,000 went upin smoke and for a time the entireblock was threatened.The fire was caused by an explosion. due to faulty fixtures In the gassystem used In lighting the building.The building was a mass of solidflames before an alarm of fire wassounded. For a time the entire block,and the Northern Commercial Company's plant were in serious danger,but valiant work on the part of thefiremen confined the flames to theCalifornia block, which was completely gutted. The California saloon lostits rock and fixtures, and with the;building places its loss at $35,000. Jack |Hcaly's grocery, which occupied ?pacein the bnfTding. reports a loss of overf." onn The Northern Hotel wasVmlyslightly damaged. ?saloff lost h.'s life in the lavatory.He had evidently suffocated. Hfebody was recovered. It was fou^dnear the door.The weather was exceedingly cold,?he thermometers registering 30 degress below zero. Fortunately nowind was blowing.The burned building was built inthe early days of the camp by Al.White, of Valdez. and was formerlyowned by Fred Martin of Anchorage.It is said this afternoon that the loss1? partially covered by Insurance. iSTORM TAKESLIVES Of TWONEAR WRANGELLWRANGELL, Dec. 20.?As a resultof the terrific storm that has blownhere since Thursday. Charles Yuccock,? veil known native is dead, gravefears are entertained for the safetyof his companion. George Kelly, and< onsiderable damage is reported fromvarious fishing camps.Yucook and Kelly left Dee^ Bay.on Vank's Island for Wrangel! duringthe storm last Thursday. Their boatwas found Saturday a total wrock. andwith its cabin carried away. Searchersf >und Yucook's body on the beach atVank's Island. The body was cladonly in underclothing and a life-beltv strapped around it. Yucook hadswum ashore and died of exposure,as he was fifty feet from the water,and was lying under a tree. Kelly'sfat? is unknown.Yucook's body was brought hero yesvrdav. he leaves a wife and several children.LITTLE INTEREST IS SHOWNIN ANNEXATION ELECTIONThe annexation election passed offvery quietly today, only 24 votes being cast at 11 o'clock this morning.Very little interest in the result is beng taken. The votes cast aL thaCtime were divided as follows. City.Ift; Tide FJr.ts cectlon, 10; Gold Belt,and the Nelson Park Addition. 0.The city was placarded Saturdaynight, the hand bills protestlng>galnstthe election, but without any apparenteffect on the result. The polls wereopen from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.The three o'clock this afternoon thecount was as follows. Gold Belt andScatter Tract. 21 votes. City 24 votes.Tide Flats 30 votes. Nelson Park Adlition. 7 votes. The indications aret'.at all sections will vote to consolidate.Mrs. M. M. Taylor, who has thehonor of being the first election judge?ver to serve in the city of Juneau act??d as a judge for the Tide Fiats section.CITY OF SEATTLEBRINGS CHRISTMAS MAILBrlng'ng 300 sacks of mall. 160 tonsof freight for Juneau and 160 tons offreight for Tread well, the steamerCity of Seattle arrlvetd at noon fromthe South This is the first mail to?-Hve f^oni the States for four days.The arriving passengers on the SeatCo were Mrs. R. W. Smith. Ethel Collins. Mrs. B. L. Meyers and child, Mrs.H. G. Feller. Olaf Lystad and BurdetteA. Winn.MRS. STRONG VERY ILLMrs. C. Cylde Strong is criticallyill at Seattle, according to word received here today. She left here aweek ago. for California, for the benefit of her health. Mr. Strong mayleave for the South on the first boat.The Rev. John A. Buchanan, pastorof the Presbvterlan Church at Thane,returned foday on the City of Seattlefrom Ketchikan, where he delivereda lecture on "Color Photography" before the Ketchikan Lyceum.K Abercrombie is registered at theOccidental.+ * + *?> + ?*?*??>?? h * *+ ?+ THE WEATHER ** For the past 24 hoars, ending 4+ 3:00p. m. today: ++ \ . *4? Sunday. December 19. ?>* Maximum?40. ? +Minimum?33. .??> Cloudy?Rain. ++ Precipitation?.45. in. 4*+ *?b Monday. December 20. ??J- Maximunk?37. 4+ Minimum?34. ** Cloudy?Ra'n. *4- Precipitation?.30 In. ?*??????+????*???BANK BANDITSESCAPE; ONESHOT TO DEATHPORT TOWNS END. Dec. 20. ?Swimming across the swift Snoqualmle river and taking to the thick ofthe woods, the three surviving members of tho gang of four bandits thatheld up the State Bunk at Duvall eluded a large posse of deputy sheriffsand armed citizens Sunday night.Early Sunday morning, after the capture of the fugitives was thought curtain, no attempt was made to findthe body of the fourth robber, whowas shot and killed while ho was clinging to a post In the middle of tho Snoqualmle river, all efforts centering on |! the search for the other three bandits,j The other robber was shot and desperately wounded as he jumped oft ij the bank. After firing several shotsi at his pursuers he started to swim j; toward the other shore. Midway inthe stream he paused and clung to t.*.epost. There la a wiro fence stretchedacross tho river at this point and Itis believed there w!U be no difficultyIn recovering the body.The Duvall Bank was held up by,four robbers Saturday night. A sackcontaining about five hundred dollarsin silver was stolen.? y + jICHAMPION ENLISTS.I I iSASKATOON. Dec. 20.?John- [I ny O'Leary. Seattle lightweight 'and champion of Canada, and| William Madden, his manager,| enlisted Saturday for the front, jO'Leary and Madden will be pri1 vates In the 64th Overseas Bat1 l&lion and will go into training !? at once.+ ? ?HI GILL TO TRYAND BEAT ENEMIESSEATTLE. Dec. 20.?With the hatsof Councilman O. L. Erickson andformer Councilman Austin E. Griffiths in the Seattle political ring asactive candidates for the mayoralty.:Mayor Hiram C. Gill told friends yesterday that he would seek re-elcction."I'm going to be like the Kaiser."Mayor Gill laughingly said. "1 shallunsheath my sword."Griffiths and Erickson are two ofthe mayor's most bitter political enemies.AMERICAN NOTETO AUSTRIA ISTO BE LAST ONECHICAGO, Dec. 20.?That a peacepact in the baseball league war wasactually signed at tho conference inNew York last weelc and that only thedetails remain to be worked out atthe meeting in Cinc'nnatl Tuesday between representatives of the Federalcircuit and members of the NationalBaseball commission was the statement made here today by a man financially interested in the peaceterms.It is believed certain in Chicagothat the result of tomorrow's conference will mark the end of the Federalsat terms satisfactory to PresidentJames A. Gllmore. of that league.MECHANIC TURNSROBBER. IS SHOT:DIES IN HOSPITALSEATTLE. Dec. 20.?John B. Woelfle, & mechanic, died yesterday. ofw^nds inflicted by F. C. West, alaundry drive1.*, whom he sought tohold up. Woelfle leaves a wife andtwo babies, the oldest whom is 20months."BILLIE THE HORSE"DYING NEAR KNIK?? ?SEWAltD, Dec. 9.?William Elliott,i better known all over Alaska as"Billie the Horse" is now lying verydangerously sick In a cabin nearjKnlk and is expected to die, and yethe refuses to take a.'d as he wouldrather die alone than suffer what hethinks would be the humiliation ofaccepting charity. Tom Finnegan,who arrived with the man last even- iing, says that men went out to thecabin to bring him in where he couldget good treatment but that he refused point blank to accept the offer and he still rema'ns in the cabinin what is thought a very serious condition. Billle has been In almost allthe camps of the territory and is verywell known.?Gateway.COPENHAGEN?Field Marshal vonMackensen was twice pounded duringthe Sen-Ian campaign, according toletters from Berlin. A bullet fired bya Servian sharpshooter at Belgradewent through his arm and two dayslater a spent ball struck him in theshoulder.WOMAN DEFEATS HUSBANDIN CITY CLERK ELECTIONREPUBLIC. Dec. 9.?The city election yesterday passed quietly. Therewere two tickets In the field, theCitizens' and the Nonpartisan. TheCitizens' won. with the exception ofone candidate, that for clerk, in whichMrs. Eva B. Cale beat her husband.J. C. Cale, Incumbent, by thirty-threevotes.Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cale formerlylived at Port Angeles.CARRIGAN AND OLTSWIN SHOOT TROPHIESA. C. Carrigan won the White Flyer trophy for the first time and Orville Olts won the DuPont trophy atthe shoot of the Juneau Gun Clubheld on their range in North JuneauSunday. Tho shooters were. King,Olts. Dickinson. Murphy, Goldstein,Banbury, McBride, Carrigan, Fry,Truesdell, Carter and Fisher.LANEISMSSPARKLEIN REPORTWASHINGTON. Doc. 20. ? Amongother gems contained in the annual: report of Socrotary Franklin K. Lane,of the interior department, is the following, the keynote of which is de, velopment:"It is not a figure of -speech to saythat every American has it in hisheart that he is in % small Bonse adiscoverer; that ho is joining in therevelation to the world of somethingthat it was not before awaro of, ofwhich It may some day mako use.Men work for what they think worthwhile and If they Qnd their joy Inproviug that land has coal or willralso wheat, or that a refractory oremay be reduced at a practicable cost,and toll abcut it proudly, they maybe serving themselves, but they arealso serving the world. A clerk ina store or a mechanic in a mill maynot consciously -engage in any enterprise which makes this appeal, butwhen ho learns that the governmentof which he is a part has within ayear opened a town on tho shores ofthe North Pacific which has now nearly throe thousand inhabitants and hasdriven a railroad nearly forty milesinland toward the Arctic Circle?onits way to the coal fields of the Matanuska and the gold fields of tho Tanana?he has a feeling tho he. too, isparticipating in making this newworld. One might say that this wasnothing more than sentimental pride,but there is a truer and perhapk moredignified word for this and it is quality. It is an expression of the American Instinct for improvement. Wehave a passion for going into the unknown for answering puzzlos that arcput to us. Our Imagination is challenged by difficulties and tho resulthas been a century 01 growin, wmcn,In Its magic and Its largeness, casts aspell upon tho mind."Alaska Territory, containing per'haps 400,000,000 acres of land. Is nowa great body of the public domain, isheavily mineralized and is n land ofunknown possibilities. One gold minothere has recently erected a mill of6,000-tonR daily capacity, with ore insight to run the mill fifty years atleast"VIRGINIANSBID WELCOMETO WILSONSHOT SPRINGS, Vn.. Dec. 20.?WhenPresident and Mrs. Wilson arrivedhere Sunday morning, to spend theirhoneymoon, the guests at the Inn gavethem a real charivari, many prominent people staying at the hotel joining In a parade in which the musicalInstruments were tin pans and makeshift tom-toms. President Wilsoif saidhe would stay here for several days.THIRTY GUESTSWERE AT WEDDINGWASHINGTON. Dec. 20. ? Mrs.Edith Bolting Gait, member of aprominent Virginia family and a descendant of Pocahontas became thebride of Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United" States. Saturdayevening. The ceremony took placeat Mrs. Gait's home .'n the fashionabledistrict, at 8:30 o'clock, the servicebeing read by the Rev. Herbert ScottSmith, rector of St. Margaret's, thechurch which Mrs. Gait attended. TheBev. James H. Taylor, pastor of thePresbyterian church wh!ch_the President usually attends, also was present ? IThirty guests were present. Withthe exception of Dr. Cary Grayson,tho President's physician. Joseph P.Tumulty, secretary to the Presidentand Miss Gertrude Gordon, the bride'sIntimate rr:en<l, tno guests were nurelatives of President Wilson or Mrs.Gait, by blood or marriage.Formality Was Lacking.Simplicity was the principal element of the wedding arrangements.President Wilson reached Mrs. Gait'shome at 6 o'clock and dined with hisdaughters and the bride. As ho entered the Gait home, the Presidentpassed through a lane of the curiosityseekers who were kept back from thehome by policemen. guests tothe wedding also were'scrutinized bytho crowd, which numbered severalhundred.No bridal march preceded the ceremony, and ushers and attendants alsowere dispensed with. Guests said itwas moro like a quiet home weddingthan that of the chief executive ofi the nation. The President and Mrs.Gait knelt on a prayer rug during thewedding ceremony. The brido worea traveling suit, of blue serge. Following the ceremony a buffet supper wasserved. The bride cut a huge weddingcake without the usual ceremony.Leave For Virgtnla.President and Mrs. Wilson left at10:30 for the railroad station by automobile and left for Hot Springs, Va.,in the President's private car. whichwas attached to a special train.Hundreds of wedding presents werereceived by the President and hisbride. They came from all points inthe United States, Hawaii, tho Philippines and Alaska.-in spite of the request from the: President that noneshould be sent except those from relatives.WAS MRS. LINCOLN'S-NEPHEWSPRINGFIELD, 111.?Albert O. Edwards, a nephew of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. and for 19 years custodian ofthe Lincoln homestead here, died suddenly today.BRITAIN'SPOSITIONREPEATEDWASHINGTON, Doc. 20.? Furtherarguments in support of Great Britain's restrictions upon commerce attho expenso of American trade werosubmitted to the State Departmentby tho British embassy, In u memorandum made public today with a letterof transmittal to Secretary Lansingfrom Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, tho English ambassador.The memo, which Is supplementaryto the note on tho same -subject handed Ambassador Walter H. Page lastsummer by the London foreign office,reiterates the asacrtion that incroasesin British trade with neutral countrieshave been infinitesimal when compared with the' growth of similarAmerican trade.WITHDRAWAL OFFEDERAL LEAGUEIS PROPHECIEDWASHINGTON, Dec. 20.?The United States' "last word" to the ^Austriangovernment, over tho Ancona case,went forward to Vienna today. Gov.eminent officials do not expect Austria to recede from her position.PARCELS POSTSTOPPAGE ISCONTROVERSYBERLIN, Dqc. 20.?Sweden has protested to Great Britain against stopping the parcels post service betweenSweden and tho. United Statos. ?BRITAIN ANSWERSLONDON, Dec. 20.?The War Officestated today that much of the parcels post packages stopped wbllo ontho way from the United States consisted of rubber, directed to a Germanagency in Sweden. ?LANSING PROTESTSWASHINGTON. Dec. 20.?The United States has protested to Great Britain against Interference with parcelspost shipments between this countryand Sweden. Secretary Lansing announced today.T. R. BABBLESAT WILSON AND! - HIS POLICIESi NEW YORK. Dec. 20.?Under the; title "Sins of tho Wilson Admlntstrn-!j tlon." former President Theodore!i Roosevelt finds vigorous fault In thei January number of the Metropolitan jmagazine with the Mexican policy, the isubmarine question, Henry Ford andother pacificists, and accuses President Wilson of appropriating to hisown use the Roosevelt policies on preparedness.The Colonel makes a further accusation that the President has made! an "about face," by "proclaiming onepolicy In Mexico which Is not to befeared In a military way. abroad, orin a national way it home, and another policy about Germany, which cancontrol many votes In tho UnitedStates, as well us take care of Itselfj against the United States, on landjand sea."GARY BANQUETSMOOSE LEADER;POLITICS BUZZ iNEW lURKf UCC. ZU.?roiilicui circlos are buzzing over a dinner at thehqpie of E. H. Gary, chairman of theUnited States Steel Corporation, atwhich -former President Roosevelt wasa guest, Friday night.Numerous friends of Colonel Roose| velt also were present, among thembeing colonel Perkins.MINING MATERIALON THE "EVANS"SEATTLE, Dec. 20?With 28 passengers and a cargo including severalhundred tons of mining machineryand lumber for the Alaska Juneaumine at Juneaa. the steamship Admiral Evans soiled North at 7 o'clock thismorning.Passengers included Mrs. H. M.Smith for Thano. and Andrew Graguh.Ben. Bovik. Mrs. George Butzer, Mrs.Rose Miller. B. Klegman, Mrs. HarryMalono, E. B. Dudden, T. H. Kershaw,Mrs. A. Bradley and E. L. Joffe, forJuneau.COPPER ADVANCESNEW YORK, Dec. 20.?Copper metal went up to 20% cents a pound today. Alaska Gold closed at 26%, Chinl at 63%, Ray at 28%, Utah at 78%,and Butte & Superior at 65%.?- ?]DAILY"GO I N G S"The Empire asks the indui- Igence of the advertisers who?o !copy we were unable to find Ij space for. Until wo have our| new press Installed it is almost 1| impossible to print ten pages in1 a day. Gentlemen, wc approc- !i iate your kindness In thinking !i first of thej EMPIRE> | "All the news all the time." Ii ? 1SURRENDEROE VILLA ISIMMINENTEL PASO, Dec. 20.?Au agreement was reached, and tho papers were be!ng signed at noon today whereby the Villa faction concludes peace terms with the dofacto government of Carranza.The Mexican conference was heldbetween Consul Garcia, for Carranza, and two former lieutenantsof Villa, at tho consulate in ElPaso. Villa himself is now inJaurez. having arrived suddenlythis morning. The signing of thepeace agreement eliminates Villafrom Mexican affairs and final arrangements for his entry to theUnited Statos soil are being per- |fected.WASHINGTON. Doc.-- 20. ? ThatPresident Wilson's Mexican policy isabout to bo vindicated by tho surrender of General Pancho Villa and his 'band of lnsurrectos, to Venustiano 1Carranza, is tho belief that prevailsin Washington today. Positive newshas been received from Mexico thatVilla is about to surrender tho remnant of his army to his conquerer. iTho Stato Department today decld- ied that Genoral Villa shall recoivotho asylum accorded all political refugees should he enter the UnitedStates, and General Frederick Funston, commanding tho United Statestroops on tho border has been instructed to so inform tho Mexican chief.Grant "Judicious Amnesty"Following a conference today In ElPaso, botween representatives of General Carranza and General Garcia, theCarranza consul at El Paso, the following statement was Issued to the ,press: "We are arranging for the surrender of Villa's army. Villa has left 'for Chihuahua City and probably will 1enter tho United States tomorrow. His 1followers will be granted amnesty in- '8ofar as tho demands of Justice may 1bo complied with."News of Villa's determination to quittho war camo from Chihuahua, where 1a council of war of his governors and 1genorals was held. It Is said that jVilla's chief advisors recommended 1peace and a telegram from Villa's 1wife, who Is in Los Angeles, also was j 1brought to bear in influencing him. |j4? i t j 'IDOVES ARRIVE . | 'I ICHRISTIANA, Dec. 20.?"Every nation in the world will1 soon look up to the American 1I peace pilgrims as having taken ' 'the Initiative In stopping his- i '1 torv's worst war; the landing I 1! of tho American peace expedl- ' I' tlon In Europe will be recordI ed as one of the most benevo- Ilent things the American Ao- I 'public over did," said Henry ' i'! Ford as he stopped ashore on | j11 Norweg'an soil yesterday, from ' 1'' the Scandinavian-American lln- !I er Oscar II., bearing over a hun- ' j1 dred peace advocates from the !United States who are making ' 1the trip to neutral countries at I 1r Ford's expense.I I !|* - ... *,iMANY CHANGES INGOVERNMENT SHIPPING BILL?+?WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.?Thcro arc marked differences between the present shipping bill draftand tho one defeated last session,chief among which Is the practicalelimination of governmental ownership features. The present bill provides for a shipping board and forma-tiltlon of a corporation, to stock ofj Iwhich any private Individual may subscribe. The ships and part of their icomplement will bo In a way a naval ]reserve force.BRITISH NOT TOMAKE LOAN SOONLONDON, Dec. 18. ? The LondonTimes says that tho "British govern- .ment has no Intention of raising a <fresh war loan until tho new year iswell advanced. It Is not expectedthat any new taxation will be Imposedduring tho present financial year. Conferences are still being held concerning mobilization of Atforlcan securities. The treasury has decided toadopt a plan of borrowing, with the <option, in certain cases, of buying.GERMANS ARETHROWN BACK;LOSSES LARGELONDON, Dec. 20.?Indications ofthe long expected offensive by theGermans in Flanders, whore the massing of Teutonic troops has been inprogress for several weeks is contained in the oflfcial British andFrench reports this evening, which3tdtc tbnt under a cloud of gas theGermans today attacked the Britishtrenches northcaBt 0/ Ypres. ThoGermans Called so completely thatonly a few of them emerged from tbeirown trenches. Those who did, the accounts say, were mowed down by artillery fire.KING AND QUEENOF BELGIUM HADA NARROW E8CAPEl'ARIS, Dec. 20.?Details of a narrow escapo from death which theKing and Queen of Belgium recentlyhad, when German airmen threwbombs on the fishing village wheretho royal couple now roslde, are printed today by the Petite Journal.NO MEAT SATURDAYVIENNA, Dec. 20.?Tho newspaporsannounced today that tho sale of meatnext Saturday will bo prohibited.LONDON TIMESHURLS CAUSTICACCUSATIONSLONDON, Doc. 20.? Tho Dailyrimes, Lord Northcllffo's paper, tolay renewed its attack on the government, saying in an editorial: "Thefact that politicians and censorshiphave fooled the public Js becomingmore and more known and the longicrlcs of dlsilluslonments causes abelief that a mysterious hand is behind tho scenes and is protecting Germnny. While beer for British workmen has been curtailed this mysterious hand has arranged to got forjcrmany, vln"Denmark. the malt sheneeds for making beer." The papermggests that no real attempt hasbeen, or is being made, to punish Germany. on land or sea.AMERICANS AFTERSHEFFIELD STEEL TRADENEW YORK, Dec. 18.?Projects ofAmerican hanking Interests to capture Sheffield atcel trade of the worldbecame known, with the announcement ?of the establishment of twofront new steel plants, each controlled by a separate hanking groupLBaltlmoro and New York financiersire promoting one of the enterpriseswhich calls for the erection of a plantit Illghlandtown, Md.. a short distance from Balt!moro. ,Plans for the other plant were filedit Syracuse Monday by the CruclbloSteel Co. and calls for the erectionif steel mills in that city, adjoiningthe Sondorson works, already ownedby that company. Combined with thenew plant, these will glvo SyracuseIn tho world for Sheffield grades ofthe largest and best equipped plantsteel.BUILDING WHARFAT FIDALGO BAYFAIRBANKS, Dec. 9.?The AlaskaMine? Corporation, of which E. D.Relter Is manager, developing copperproperties on an extensive scale atFldalgo bay, sent a big shlpmont offreight to the mine this morning onthe Shamrock.The company is building a wharfand ore bunkers at Tldalgo which willpermit of large steamers landing atany time and discharging or takingon cargo.' The approach to tho dockwill bo three hundred and seventyb1x feet long with a T one hundredby forty feoL?Valdez Prospector.AMERICAN SECURITIESCOMING FASTER THANTHEY EVER DID BEFORENEW YORK, Dec. 18,?The Britishliquidation of American bonds continues on largo scalo. Recent steamer shipments averaging $10,000,000 aroexpected to bo exceeded on tho succeeding two boats.LATE NEWS BULLETINSseattle woman diesSEATTLE ? Mrs. Willcy, wife ofCapt. George J. Wllley, a steamshipowner extensively Interested .in Puget Sound and Alaska salmon canneries, died Saturday night In Minor Hospital, following an operation. She wasa daughter of Clark Aldridge. a pioneer merchant.predicts war's endLONDON?Lord Derby, director ofrecruiting, In a speech Sunday predicted the war would terminate suddenly, and much earlier than is generally expected. Conscription for single men who fall to enlist under LordDerby's present "plan, is gradually finding much favor with the British newopapers.boy burned to deathSEATTLE?Morton, tho 6-year-oldson of W. A. Glcason, a member ofthe Port Commission, burnod to deathwhen the Gleason homo was destroyedby fire yesterday. The boy's pnrentswere bsully burned trying to rescuetho child from the flames.Aberdeen woman killedABERDEEN, WaBh?Mrs. FrederickW. Greene, wife of the rector of theEpiscopal Church was run down andkilled and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Greene was severely Injured Sunday by an automobile hearse.AID-FOR-POLAND DAYWASHINGTON?An executive proc)amat!on, designating January 1 as aday for making contributions for thereller of Poland was Issued today at(he White House.LOGGER RUNS AMUCKMOUNT VERNON, Wash.? RobertLee, a logger, was shot and killed yesterday by L. B. I?endbettcr, anotherloggor employed In the same ramp.The two men had quarreled. AfterkJH'ng Lee, 1.endbotter ran to anotherhunkhousc looking for TimekeeperGos8. against whom ho bad a grudge.Not finding him In one of the tents,hp fired a shot at the mon wltbln. Hewas.finally disarmed antf arrested.RUSS AGENCY AT SEATTLESEATTLE?Russia will establlsh'anagency hero for the forwarding ofPuget Sound and Alaska fish products,it was learned today.SUPREME COURT ADJOURNSWASHINGTON?Tho supreme courtadjourned today until January 3.BRITISHQUITTINGGALLIPOLILONDON, Dec. 20.?II was announced at the War Office today that the ,British troops operating in Sulva andAnzac districts, Gallipoll campaign,havo been withdrawn, and, tho WarOffice intimates, other branches oftho Gallipoll armies will retire whenpracticable.Part of the allied forces will go at vonco to Salonika and the remainder toEgypt. If the Gallipoll campaign Isabandoned it will releaso 250,000 Turkish Holdlers from that theatre.Belgian Coast 8hel!edDispatches from Borlin tell of thoshelling yesterday by Allied monitors,of tho German fortifications at Westpnde, on the Belgain coast. The Germans claim to havo driven the monitors away by flro from land batteries.The Germans udmlt the loss of tholight cruiser Bremen, and a torpedoboat, whichflwere destroyed by a British bubmarino In tho Baltic Sea Saturday. The crews of both vessels escaped.An air-raid on the German fortressof Mett is reported from Paris, butonly property damage was done, theofficial communique said.Bulgarian Losses HeavyA dispatch from Athens estimatesthe total Bulgarian losses in the Sorblan campaign at 130,000 men. \cannonading heardoff Holland coastROTTERDAM, Dec. 20. ? Terrificcannonading was heard Sunday off thoRock of Holland and It was believedhere that several ships were engaged.von bi8sin0 to quitROME, Dec. 20.?General Von -Biasing, tho German governor-general oftho occupied territory in Belgium isto retire from his office on January1, on account of ill health, accordingto a dispatch today from Antwerp.AMERICAN RED CROSSASSISTANTS ATTACKED;U. 8. FLAG INSULTEDSALONIKA, Dec. 20.?According toa story they told today, Mrs. WalterFarwell, a Chicago society woman,and Dr. Harry S. Forbes, an AmericanRed Cross physician wero attackedwhen the 'Bulgarians raided theAmerican Red Cross headquarters atM on astir. Mrs. Farwell said the Invaders ripped down the American flag,and seized the Serbian rollef storesfor their own use.CANADA SENDS 205,000OTTAWA. Dec. 20.?It was announced by the government today that Canada had sent 205.000 well-equippedand well-drilled soldiers to the frontslnco the opening of the war.?????++??+++??+?*? ?* * JAP8 GUARD SUEZ? +* ?+? *+ LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.? ?* That Japan Is giving material +* aid to the entente allies In the ?+ European war, not only by sup- +* plying munitions, but by actual- +ly guarding the Sues Canal 4+ with her warships, was stated ++? hero today by A. M. Papajlan ++ Bey, former Minister of the In- ++ terlor, In Egypt. +* ?NEWS AND VIEWSOF EUROPE'S WARThere are In tho United ^Kingdom230,000 Jews, of whom 17,000 arc serving, exactly eight and one half percent. While another 900.000 Christlans^have enlisted it will bo time totalk about Jewish shirkers."Tho sniping record against Turksat Galllpol! la held by a young Australian cavalryman named King. 91hits, of which at least 50 wero cleankills, was his record for September.He watches the Turkish lines from arifle pit with a teloscope. Ho allowsthe Turks to show themselves untilthey becomo careless and then opensfire. Keeping mo rceoru 01 iu? unaby notches on a stick.18 ships with a total tonnage of 112082 have been sunk by submarines ofthe Central powers in the Mediterranean Sea up todato. according toan official Berlin statement.ATHENS?When the German Alliesentered Monastir the stnra and stripesover the Red Cross hospital werehauled down and the Austrian flagwas raised. The hospital hns beenconducted by American doctors.How Captains Boy-Ed and vonPapon directed the spending of over$TC,000,000 to prepare a revolutionf inMexico that would put Hucrta in power again and bring that country atwar with the United States is saidto have been learned from a sourceclose to the Mexican consulate, inNow York City. Story involves alsoLieut-Col. Rfntelen, for severalmonths cashier of German secretagents in this country and AndrewD. Mcloy. a promoter with interestsin Mexico, who was a scout for Rintelen. Detailed statements havo beenforwarded to Washington showing expenditures of at least 827,000,000 intho Mexican propoganda and In otherphases of Gorman activities.Burdette A. Winn, who has been attending tho University of Washingtonsince the opening of the semester, returned today on tho City of Seattle to ?spend tho Christmas holidays with his ?parents.Evorybody reads The Dally Empire.